A workflow solution designed by Fairlight’s French business partner EuroMedia Technologies played an integral part in helping RTBF, the national broadcaster for the French-speaking areas of Belgium, win a coveted IBC Award for Innovation at the recent 2009 IBC Convention.
EuroMedia Technologies’ AV-Process 3.0 CCE (Crystal Core edition) software was developed to work with all Fairlight products running Fairlight’s latest CC-1 engine. This new media management software was installed at RTBF last year, along with a number of new Fairlight workstations. It is now handling all audio and video files, including Avid and EVS input and outputs, enabling RTBF to automate its entire production workflow.
RTBF won the IBC Award for Most Innovative Project in Content Management after its NumProd team submitted a project entitled Service Oriented Architecture at RTBF, which showed how the broadcaster had migrated its broadcast operations to a tapeless workflow.
New possibilities and efficiencies for broadcast content creators and distributors
IBC, Amsterdam, 11 September 2009: At IBC Quantel demonstrated three new extensions to the sQ server system architecture: Virtualisation, an Open Identity Model and Web Services. Building upon the already class-leading video and file-based workflows of the sQ architecture, the extensions deliver new workflow opportunities, greatly increase customer choice and dramatically simplify the integration and management challenge of file-based operations.
The new capabilities are open and inclusive enabling Quantel, its customers and 3rd parties to build new co-operative workflows using modern IT technologies and standards.
These new architecture components are not pie-in-the-sky futures, they are real developments that today enable Final Cut Pro to offer true broadcast workflow when partnered with sQ systems (see separate release) as well as remote working (see below). This is only the beginning; in the future these building blocks will underpin more
EVS and Quantel have announced advanced production workflow integration between the two companies’ production systems. This has been made possible by the recent adoption of the Panasonic DVCPRO HD Codec by EVS, which is now natively supported by EVS production servers and by Quantel’s new file system virtualisation technology. Integrated workflows featuring file interchange between the EVS XS server controlled by IPDirector and Quantel sQ production systems was demonstrated at the Quantel booth during IBC2009.
The recently released native support of the Panasonic DVCPRO HD codec by EVS enables its production servers, such as the XT[2] and the XS, to offer extended workflow capabilities and smoother content exchange with Quantel sQ production systems. The exchange between EVS and Quantel is based on MXF OP1A file transfer, which can be managed manually or automatically depending on the system configuration.
Now Available with SMPTE 3G HD-SDI Re-Clocking Input/Output Blades
AMSTERDAM, NETHERLANDS – MultiDyne Video & Fiber Optic Systems, a premier provider of fiber optic-based video and audio transport and routing solutions for broadcast and pro A/V applications, debuted its EOS-4000 Series fiber-optic switchers now available with SMPTE 3G HD-SDI Re-Clocking Input/Output Blades at IBC 2009 (Stand 2.A54). When combined with the MultiDyne SilverBULLET, HD-1500 or HD-3000, the EOS-4000 3G SMPTE video electro-optical routing solution provides a complete routing and long-haul distribution system for broadcast, medical, government and pro a/v applications.
The EOS-4000 Series devices provide high-speed switching between ports, and are designed to function as incredibly versatile, multi-purpose solutions crucial for any distribution system. They are an ideal solution for routing DVI single and dual link, HDMI, RGB-HV, SDI, HD-SDI and 3G HD-SDI signals optically. As electrical routing more
Dalet enterprise media asset management technology recognized for its technological innovation at the RTBF NUMPROD project.
Amsterdam, The Netherlands – September 14, 2009 – Dalet Digital Media Systems is pleased to announce that they have won, along with EVS and RTBF, the IBC (International Association of Broadcasters) Innovation Award 2009 for the Content Management category. Dalet was shortlisted for the award together with technology partner EVS back in June of 2009 for their involvement with the Belgium public broadcaster Radio Télévision Belge Francophone (RTBF) NUMPROD project. Both Dalet and EVS provided RTBF with a highly flexible and scalable tapeless workflow facilitating the production needs for a wide range of RTBF resources across both news and programs/sports production operations. The tapeless workflows from ingest to playout to archive rely on innovative integration techniques through the RTBF “Intranet de Production”; the backbone of the NUMPROD system. more
Inlet Technologies, the leader in live streaming and video-on-demand solutions for digital media, announced today it is helping to enable HTTP adaptive streaming of content to the Apple® iPhone™ and iPod® Touch® for some of the most innovative broadcasters, entertainment and retail enterprises, and sports organizations around the globe.
Inlet recently teamed with Akamai Technologies to power Turner Sports’ live streaming of the 91st PGA Championship to iPhone and iPod Touch users. Building on the success of 3.4 million video streams across the Turner Sports online golf portfolio during the PGA Championship, video streaming of the FedExCup championship is ramping up. Live coverage of key holes at all four tournaments leading up to the crowning of the champion will be available through the iPhone PGA App, in addition to the online component. In early August, Inlet and Akamai also worked together to help Apple deliver the first more
State of the art closed captioning technology integrates with award-winning iCR software
BURBANK, Calif. – September 15, 2009 – AmberFin is pleased to announce a new partnership with Starfish Technologies, formally agreed at today’s IBC. Under the terms of the partnership, Starfish’s closed captioning technology will be integrated into AmberFin’s iCR software from late 2009, when it launches with first customer Warner Brothers Technical Services.
AMSTERDAM — Sept. 11, 2009 — IBC 2009 Stands 7.J11 and 1.C61 — Harmonic Inc. (NASDAQ: HLIT) today announced it has teamed up with German audio specialists Jünger Audio Studiotechnik GmbH to bring Jünger’s Level Magic automated audio level control technology to its broadcast, cable, satellite and telco customers through a unique integration with Harmonic’s DiviCom Electra® and Ion™ encoders and ProStream™ 1000 stream processing platform with ACE™ technology. This solution addresses a critical issue plaguing program suppliers, broadcasters and subscribers alike — annoying audio level changes within a channel (during commercial breaks, for example) and when switching from one channel to another. more
AMSTERDAM — Sept. 11, 2009 — IBC 2009 Stand 1.C61 — Harmonic Inc. (NASDAQ: HLIT) today announced that Altibox (formerly Lyse Tele), a telecommunications service provider based in Norway, has deployed Harmonic’s StreamLiner® video servers, Armada® intelligent asset management, and ProStream™ 8000 digital mosaic solution. This deployment enables advanced IPTV video-on-demand (VOD) services and multi-channel mosaic viewing for Altibox subscribers across Norway and Denmark. Altibox is initially introducing this advanced IPTV offering for Norwegian Elite Series football programming with plans to expand to additional sporting events in the future. more
AMSTERDAM — Sept. 10, 2009 — IBC 2009 Stand 1.C61 — Harmonic Inc. (NASDAQ: HLIT) today introduced the MediaPrism™ convergence suite for multi-screen video delivery to the TV, PC, iPhone and other mobile devices. Deployed by Tier 1 service providers for new mobile and Internet video service trials, MediaPrism is the industry’s most comprehensive solution for converged video delivery, uniquely encompassing live and offline content ingest, transformation, delivery and workflow management. The MediaPrism convergence suite is designed to support a variety of emerging mobile and Internet delivery formats, including Microsoft® Silverlight™, Apple® adaptive HTTP Live Streaming and Adobe® Flash®, in addition to legacy mobile video formats, existing broadcast TV and video-on-demand services. more
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